METAPHOR AND CENSORSHIP: ON ONE OF THE LINES OF INTERACTION BETWEEN LITERATURE AND SOCIETY

Abstract

The essay dwells on the intricate ways of exchange between establishment and anti-establishment aesthetics in the literature of Bulgaria during socialism. Ideological variation did not necessarily lead to differences in aesthetic value; on the contrary, the latter (literariness or metaphor) seems to have been common territory among camps and coteries in the literary field. This should serve to indicate, so the argument goes, that there existed, during socialism, a particular aesthetic epistheme, which was replaced by another after the 1989 political changes.